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Review ThinApp Application Assignments on page 202
You
can review all of the desktops and pools that a particular ThinApp application is currently assigned
to. You can also review all of the ThinApp applications that are assigned to a particular desktop or pool.
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Display MSI Package Information on page 203
After you add a ThinApp application to View Administrator, you can display information about its MSI
package.
Best Practices for Assigning ThinApp Applications
Follow best practices when you assign ThinApp applications to desktops and pools.
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To install a ThinApp application on a particular desktop, assign the application to the desktop. If you use
a common naming convention for your desktops, you can use desktop assignments to quickly distribute
applications to all of the desktops that use that naming convention.
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To install a ThinApp application on all of the desktops in a pool, assign the application to the pool. If you
organize your pools by department or user type, you can use pool assignments to quickly distribute
applications to specific departments or users. For example, if you have a pool for your accounting
department users, you can distribute the same application to all of the users in your accounting department
by assigning the application to the accounting pool.
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To streamline the distribution of multiple ThinApp applications, include the applications in a ThinApp
template. When you assign a ThinApp template to a desktop or pool, View Administrator installs all of
the applications currently in the template.
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Do not assign a ThinApp template to a desktop or pool if the template contains a ThinApp application
that is already assigned to that desktop or pool. Also, do not assign a ThinApp template to the same
desktop or pool more than once with a different installation type. View Administrator will return ThinApp
assignment errors in both of these situations.
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Although assigning ThinApp applications to local desktops is not supported, View Administrator does
not prevent you from doing so. If you want to experiment with assigning ThinApp applications to local
desktops, you must meet certain requirements. See the VMware View Architecture Planning Guide for more
information.
Assign a ThinApp Application to Multiple Desktops
You can assign a particular ThinApp to one or more desktops.
Prerequisites
Scan an application repository and add selected ThinApp applications to View Administrator. See “Add
ThinApp Applications to View Administrator,” on page 196.
Procedure
1 Select Inventory > ThinApps and select the ThinApp application.
2 From the Add Assignment drop-down menu, select Desktops.
The desktops that the ThinApp application is not already assigned to appear in the table.
Option
Action
Find a specific desktop
Type the name of the desktop in the Find text box and click Find.
Find all of the desktops that follow
the same naming convention
Type a partial desktop name in the Find text box and click Find.
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